At the same time, some advocates for battered women say, growing numbers of the abused, mostly women, have been arrested because their partners made retaliatory charges and the officers were unsure who the primary aggressor was.
Human rights organizations estimate that more than 250 Shiites, mostly youths, have been arrested in the ongoing security crackdown, which has sparked unrest in the streets.
More than 20 opposition politicians and former aides to Mr. Touré have been arrested, mostly at night, by armed, masked soldiers.
C. J. Marais, 16 people had been arrested, mostly on charges of possession of drugs and stolen property, and two stolen vehicles had been recovered.
By Sunday afternoon, after seven days of protests, 102 people had been arrested, mostly for obstructing the highway, the Metropolitan police said.
"Two hundred F.I.R.s have been filed and 800 people have been arrested, mostly on charges of murder, arson and loot," she said, referring to first information reports, or police complaints.
Seeking to ease a volatile stalemate in the capital, the authorities in Kiev on Friday said they had freed all 234 people who had been arrested, mostly for taking part in violent clashes last month with the police.
New York police said 98 people had been arrested, mostly for disorderly conduct.
The individuals who appear here are mostly women who have been arrested during police raids of massage parlours or found through sex work adverts.
More than 1,800 people have been arrested — mostly suspected cheaters, middlemen and testing administrators — and hundreds more are on the run.
